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Hoon (Korean name)

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Hoon
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHun
McCune–ReischauerHun

Hoon, also spelled Hun, is a single-syllable masculine Korean given name, as well as a morpheme in many other Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written.

Hanja

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There are 12 hanja with this reading, and two variant forms, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; they are:[1]

  1. (가르칠 훈 garuchil hun): "to teach"
  2. (공 훈 gong hun): "merit"
    • (variant of above)
  3. (김 쐴 훈 gim ssoel hun): "to dry gim"
  4. (불길 훈 bulgil hun): "blaze"
  5. (향풀 훈 hyangpul hun): "basil"
  6. (질나발 훈 jilnabal hun): a Korean wind instrument
    • (variant of above)
  7. (연기낄 훈 yeongikkil hun): "smoke"
  8. (금빛 투색할 훈 geumbit tusaekhal hun): "faded gold colour"
  9. (무리 훈 muri hun): "faint"
  10. (분홍빛 훈 bunhongbit hun): "afterglow"
  11. : "weld"[2]
  12. (향풀 훈 hyangpul hun): "basil"

People

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People with the single-syllable given name Hoon include:

Fictional characters with this name include:

As name element

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From the 1960s to the 1980s, a number of given names containing this morpheme were among the top ten most popular names for newborn boys in South Korea:[3]

  • Ji-hoon, the only name among these which has remained in the top ten during the 1990s and 2000s[4][5]
  • Jung-hoon (10th place in 1960, 1st place in 1970, 3rd place in 1980)
  • Sang-hoon (9th place in 1960 and 1970)
  • Sung-hoon (5th place in 1970, 6th place in 1980)

Given names containing this morpheme include:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. p. 51. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  2. ^ Some dictionaries list this character as binnal hwi (빛날 휘) and haenmuri un (햇무리 운), but with no reading hun; for example see "煇". Naver Hanja Dictionary. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
  3. ^ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  4. ^ 이진희 (Yi Jin-hui) (2009-01-28). "너도 민준이니... 어! 또 서연이야". Hankook Ilbo. Archived from the original on 2009-01-30. Retrieved 2012-10-27.
  5. ^ "남자 → '민준' 여자 → '서연' 가장 많아". Law Times. 2010-01-20. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-09-19.